Ontario Premier Doug Ford is asleep at the wheel and pushing down on the debt accelerator.

But the fall economic statement is a chance for the premier to wake up and turn the car around before we drive into the ditch.

Ford campaigned on running a fiscally responsible government in contrast to his predecessors Dalton McGuinty and Kathleen Wynne, promising that “the party is over with the taxpayers’ money.” He argued that Wynne’s 2018 budget was a typical case of Liberal recklessness with the province’s finances — a budget that resulted in $7.3 billion of borrowing for government operations.

So that must mean the Ford government is borrowing less than the Wynne government, right?

Wrong.

Borrowing is twice the size as Wynne’s

This year, Finance Minister Peter Bethlenfalvy tabled a budge

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